A Friendly Warning

When we stepped out into ministry in 2019, I was surrounded by set men of the same calling and all of us were in our 30s and early forties.
@bukola_adewuyi1 @femioladehin @earthworkrr @eyitayofelix and @GbengaWemimo

We didn't drop from heaven; we were all members of different churches who were drawn together by the Holy Spirit into fellowship. (We were having Night of Glory every third Friday of the month then and we were all attending @pssbcnigeria Bible school.

I was already having serious issues with the church I was attending because the leadership felt I was moving at a trajectory that would either see me breaking away from the church to start my own (our fellowship which we held in the church was always full of testimonies, signs and wonders. It was vibrant and people attended massively) while people don't come to the usual church services.

For months, it was the fellowship that paid the rent, staff salaries and renovated the church. I told them I had no intention of starting a church but they didn't believe me (I still don't pastor a church). I just to see the gospel and its power demonstrated instead of mere words.

I am not a word peddler; I believe the power of God is at work in every Believer and I was determined to make them see it rather than come to church to listen to one man whom they call pastor and continue depending on that man for their spiritual needs when they could dispense the supernatural by themselves.

A pastor is supposed to coordinate the affairs of spirits and light, not be the only burning light and enlightened spirit every member depends on! This mindset of mine is ��� scriptural and it is how Christ intends his church to be.

The leaders of the church disagreed and so we were always at loggerheads. I refused to back down and they refused to budge. I was always referring them to the miracles they were seeing in the fellowship I was holding, the growth, the crowd, the testimonies, and the development of the ministers (I didn't minister with the fellow ministers in the church).

I taught some believers in PSSBC school 1 and they began to minister with me. That made the ministers of the church feel isolated the more. One day the pastor called me and prayed for me. In his words, "GO and fulfil your ministry.”

That was the last Sunday in January 2020. I thanked him. After the service I met with the ministers I listed above at “The Place”, opposite the church building at Ogudu. I had a strong concern in my heart and I aired it. I said, "I have just been tactically shown the door. It means I am now on my own and cannot use this church for our programmes again.
@femioladehin said he had found a location in Surulere to site the church God had committed into his hands and would like to take us there. My second concern was about our conducts! We were young and now we had been "orphaned" by the churches we were all attending.
@earthworkrr was a men's fellowship leader at a church before he was tacitly shown the door like I was.

@femioladehin left his church on very good terms and @bukola_adewuyi1 had agreed to be a part of the church in Surulere.

I had been told that I had zeal without wisdom and anointing without discipline by some elders of the church I had just been tacitly thrown out of. I refuse to be indisciplined as suggested. I wanted all of us to be on the same page.

"No scandal!"
That was my charge to my brothers. Of course, some of us had issues with certain aspects of our lives that we were dealing with- some marital, some financial etcetera but I didn't want any hint of immorality and debauchery to accompany the message of grace and the power of the gospel at work in us.

We had proven that we could deliver the supernatural, but I had heard many pastors say those who teach grace are immoral, indisciplined believers who use grace as an excuse to live recklessly. I didn't want that to be us. We needed to do everything as unto the Lord. My brothers agreed with me.

Over the past two years, we have had to take serious decisions among our fellowships leading to expelling certain characters and denouncing others but all five of us have stayed true to the no scandal rule and grown with it. The supernatural is necessary to show the world the reality of the Kingdom of heaven.

Our reputation is key to how those we are training will come to understand the gospel and act too. It will be hypocritical to prey upon the sheep we are grooming to become lions financially, emotionally, sexually or “whateverly.”

I write this as a fair warning to those who have joined our fellowships and grown with us since then. If you don't know our foundation, you may come into our fellowship and see it all lively and full of joy. Don't mistake that for laxity. I'd personally throw you out of the fellowship without any apology.

Our freedom is not a liberty to misbehave. It is the liberty of His Presence!

I love you

-GSW-